Journal of Family Research
Year:2007 | Volume:2 | Issue:8|Papers Count:8

The goal of this study was to investigate the quality of life and related indices in women with HN in Tehran. 112 women with HN were selected from hospitals and other institutes. Information were collected using MQoL-HIV, religious attitudes, Erich's marital satisfaction, GHQ, LES scales and demographic questionnaire. Results showed that 17% of the women had a very low quality of life, 51.8% were low on quality of life, and 31.2% showed moderate quality of life. There are significant relations between quality of life and duration of infection, mental status, environmental stressors, religious beliefs, and marital satisfaction. In addition significant correlations between type of infection and age with quality of life were found.

Sexual behavior is an important aspect of the quality of marital life. Individuals develop their sexual behavior in the context of a gender construction. They acquire gender role stereotypes as a set of shared cultural cliches which in turn shape their sexuality.The aim of the present study is to compare the sexual behaviors of married college students in relationship with gender role stereotypes. Sixty married college students (30 females) were randomly selected from two universities in Tehran. Three self-rating instruments were used: 1) Bem sex role Inventory, 2) Personal experiences Questionnaire and 3) general demographic questionnaire. Results revealed no significant differences between female and male students in total score of sexual behaviors (t= 0.45, df=58, p<0.65). But, there are significant differences genders regarding orgasm, (X2=17.97, df=1, p<.05), and hurt by spouse, (X2= 14.96, df=1, p<.05). Findings also reveal that gender role stereotypes only in women, and not in men, influence sexual satisfaction (X2=8.28, dF=3, p<.05). Results have been discussed based on a new model of sexuality.

The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of shift work on marital satisfaction of female nurses and its predictor variables. A randomly selected sample from 6 different hospitals, from both day and night shift, were given ENRICH questionnaire to measure marital satisfaction. T-tests revealed that night shift nurses are significantly lower than day shift ones on two variables namely "Sexual relationships" and "Financial management" (p<0.02), but not on marital satisfaction subscale. Based on path analysis method, it was found that shift work has direct effect (0.09) and indirect effect through "Communication" on "Sexual relationship" and "Financial management" (0.08). In total, shift work accounted for 0.17 of variance of marital satisfaction. These results indicate that participants are likely to be adapted to night shift work over the time, and at the time of the study it seems that shift work might only had affected those aspects of marital satisfaction which demand more physical closeness such as sexual relationship. It seems that educating shift workers on time management and conflict resolution could help them to control the discussed interferences more effectively.

The present study examines the role of parents' education in their children social, academic, emotional, and physical self-efficacy. The selected sample was 946 high school students (471 girls) from north, south, west, east and centre of Tehran. The schools were selected randomly. Participants completed Children's Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (SEQ-c) and Physical Self-Efficacy Questionnaire. Analysis of variance followed by Post Hoc was carried out. Results showed that parents' education have significant role in girls' social, academic, emotional and physical self-efficacy but no significant role in boys' self-efficacy.

This research investigates the effectiveness of cognitive- behavioral education of couples on decreasing tendency to narcotic substances in dependent patients to opium. A sample of 30 couples, (one or both addicted) referred to addiction withdrawal ward of Noor hospital, were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups (15 couples in each group). Experimental group received eight sessions of cognitive-behavioral education and control group received no specific education. Tendency to consumption of substances was assessed using a questionnaire that both groups completed before and after program. Results of ANCOV A revealed that mean scores of groups were significantly different (p=0.04). Therefore, it is suggested that cognitive-behavioral education of couples decreased tendency to opium in the experimental group compared with the control group.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of Transactional Analysis group therapy in marital satisfaction of couples. The population of the study was all the couples referred to the clinics and psychological centers in Isfahan, demanding professional services for their marital problems. Four centers were randomly selected. From the list of couples registered for receiving psychological services, 16 couples were randomly selected and assigned to the experimental and control groups. After the drop out, 6 couples took part as the experimental and 6 couples as the control group. Experimental group received 8 sessions of TA. "Index of Marital Satisfaction" and "Dyadic Adjustment Scale" were used as pretest, posttest and follow up measures. The results of analyses of covariance showed that the experimental group was significantly higher on marital satisfaction both in the post-test and the follow-up relative to the control group (p< 0.05).